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heath | x |

As a proper noun heath

is .

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

heath

English

(wikipedia heath)

Noun

  • A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
  • * ~1602 , William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, scene I:
  • *:1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath /3. There to meet with Macbeth
  • Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae .
  • * 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 258:
  • There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.
  • # Many of the species in the genus Erica
  • # Many of the species in the genus Cassiope
  • # Both species in the genus
  • # Any of the species in the genus
  • # Any of the species in the genus
  • # Any of the species in the genus
  • (label) Certain butterflies and moths
  • # The palaearctic species of Coenonympha , a genus of brush-footed butterfly
  • ## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath
  • ## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath
  • # , the heath fritillary
  • #
  • Usage notes

    * The word heaths may describe multiple disconnected heathlands.

    Synonyms

    * heather

    Anagrams

    *

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----